Sentence analysis 2

Hello Hela again

1. They parted good friends.
This sentence can be a contracted form of "They parted, being good friends". So "good friends" can be parsed as an subject complement as well as an adverbial. "Good friends" is optional, because "they parted" makes sense by itself.
2. They married young.
Same as 1.
3. The sun shone bright.
Same as 1.
4. Hungrily, the dog smelled at the package.
"Smell" here is an intransitive verb and "at the package" is an adverbial PP (direction/target of "smell"). "The package" is the object of the preposition "at". "Hungrily is the optional adverbial of manner.
5. She has quite rapidly become an expert.
"An expert" is the subject complement. "Quite rapidly" is  "intensifier + adverb of time (optional)".
6. The phone rang loudly in the night.
Loudly is an adverb and "in the night" is an adverbial PP. Both are optional.
7. She is remaining at Cambridge.
"Is remaining" is a present progressive verbal phrase of the intransitive verb "remain"."At Cambridge" is an obligatory adverbial of place.
8.  My watch has disappeared from my desk.
"Has disappeared" is the present perfect verbal phrase of the intransitive verb "disappear". "From my desk" is an optional adverbial of place.
9.  The soldiers fought well.
"Well" is an optional adverb of manner.
10.  She agreed to be my friend for life.
I parse  "agreed to be" as <intransitive verb + adverbial infinitive (manner)>. "My friend" is the subject complement and "for life" is an optional adverbial of time.

paco

Dear teachers,

If you wouldn't mind I have plenty of sentences I'd like you to correct. Would it be possible for me to send them to you bit by bit for a correction?

I'll start here with the first six. Please tell me if I can carry on.

1) The sun shone on us brightly.

the sun = subject
shone = intransitive verb ?
on us = adverbial of place ???
brightly = adverbial of manner

2) She pitched a perfect game and got a gold medal.

She = subject
Pitched = transitive verb
A perfect game = direct object

And = linker / connector ?
Got = transitive verb
A gold medal = direct object.

3) The Jones and the Martins want to swap houses.

The Jones and the Martins = subject
a) want = transitive verb + to swap houses = direct object (?) OR
b) want to swap = transitive verb + houses = direct object (?)

4) My best friend’s son has become a first violin in the orchestra of the Royal Opera House. (Does this sentence make sense?)

My best friend’s son = subject
Jas become = copular / linking verb
A first violin = subject related complement
In the orchestra of the ROH = adverbial of place

(should I put the adverbial first in the sentence?)

5) The customer sent the store a letter a) complaining about the service / b) of complaint about the service.
The customer = subject
Sent = ditransitive verb

the store = indirect object
A letter = direct object
a) of complaint about the service = object of the preposition “of” (?) / or adverbial ??

OR

a letter of complaint = DO

about the service = object related complement ??

b) what about the parsing of "Complaining about the service" ???

6) The company considers Mr Jones the best man for the job.

The company = subject
Considers = transitive verb (?)
Mr Jones = direct object
The best man for the job = object realated complement

Thank you very much in advance for your help.
Hela

Hello Hela

Sorry, I've only just seen your thread:

1. I would take "shine on" as a prepositional verb, and "us" as the prepositional object. But other parsers will disagree...

2. I wonder whether we could take "a perfect game" as a cognate object here. She didn't literally "pitch" the game; she pitched balls in such a way that she did well in the game. Thus "a game" denotes something that is already implied in the verb.

I would simply call "and" a coordinating conjunction.

3. I would take "to swap houses" as the object of "want", and "houses" as the object of "swap".

4. Yes, the sentence is fine: the violins in an orchestra are divided into "first violins" and "second violins". The "in the...ROH" phrase would sound a little odd if fronted. "Adverbial of place" seems ok; though it isn't so much "location", as "context for a role". (I wonder whether there's a subdivision of adverbials that relates to "organizational context".)

5. I would take "a letter of complaint" as the direct object, and "about the service" as a prepositional phrase that acts as an adjectival attribute of the direct object.

With the "complaining" version, I would take "complaining about" as a participle (prepositional verb) modifying "letter", and "the service" as the prepositional object.

6. Yes, I think that's how I'd do it too.

I expect I've erred somewhere or other, though; in which case another member will point it out!

MrP

Hello Hela

Please allow to put my 2 cents only to the question #1.

Hela wrote:

1) The sun shone on us brightly. the sun = subject : shone = intransitive verb ? on us = adverbial of place ??? : brightly = adverbial of manner

I parse it that "shone" is an intransitive verb and "on us" is an adverbial prep phrase.

If "shine on" is a transitive phrasal verb, you could be able to say "We were shone on (by the Sun)". You use "be shone on" like "The spotlight was shone on the actor" but I don't think you would say "The actor was shone on by the spotlight" for the passive voice of "The spotlight shone on the actor". So I take the "shine" in "shine on X" of the active voice is an intransitive verb and "on X" is an adverbial to idicate the direction of sun/light beams.      

paco